Nicole Molumby:
Dr. Nicole Molumby is Associate Professor at Boise State University, Department of Music where teaches flute and ear training. She is an active performer, adjudicator, and clinician throughout the country and Europe. Most recently she has presented solo and chamber performances in Skofia Loka Slovenia, Trondheim Norway, Eisenstadt Austria, Split Croatia, Charlotte, Anaheim, Minneapolis, Seattle, San Antonio, Reno and Atlanta. She was recently awarded an Idaho Commission on the Arts 2013 Fellowship in Performing and Media Arts, as well as a 2012-2013 Boise State University Arts and Humanities Fellowship for her contributions and performances of newly commissioned flute music by Slovenian Composers Blaz Pucihar and Crt Sojar Voglar. In 2011, she was also named the College Music Society’s Technology Award recipient for her innovative teaching strategies using iPads in the University Aural Skills Class.
Outside of her academic and teaching duties at Boise State University, performance engagements have included; principal flute at the Classical Music Festival in Eisenstadt, Austria (2002-2009), substitute flute with the Boise Philharmonic Orchestra (2008-present), guest piccoloist with Williamsport Regional Symphony in Pennsylvania (2005), and baroque flutist at the Norfolk Early Music Festival in Norfolk, England (2000). Dr. Molumby has performed at the National Flute Association National Convention in 2010 and 2011, as well as the College Music Society national and regional conferences 2005-2011.
Dr. Molumby was recently appointed by the National Flute Association as the Myrna Brown International Scholarship Liaison from 2012 to 2015. She has served as an adjudicator for the Hornsfall Flute Competition (Seattle, WA), MTNA Regional Woodwind Competition, and Idaho Music Educators Association. Molumby is an active clinician at universities and high schools in the Northwest. She received her D. M. A. from The Ohio State University while studying with Katherine Borst Jones, M. M. degree from the Royal Northern College of Music (Manchester, UK) with Peter Lloyd, and B.M. & B.M.E. from the University of Northern Iowa with Dr. Angeleita S. Floyd.
Currently, Dr. Molumby has been practicing a guided meditation called iRest (Integrative Restoration), which is a westernized form of Yoga Nidra. She and her university students have studied iRest with occupational therapist Tanya Penny for the past two years. Dr. Molumby received her level 1 iRest Certification in 2012.